EVENTS from June 2001

LOS ANGELES:

Peter Broetzmann and Michael Wertmueller, In Concert

Knitting Factory Hollywood
7021 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
June 3rd, 2001, 7:00 p.m.

Michael Wertmueller, drums, currently the Composer-in-Residence at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, and the legendary German saxophone player Peter Broetzmann, are performing at the Knitting Factory Hollywood on Sunday, June 3rd, at 7 PM.

Broetzmann is a historical figure of the European improvised music scene, and is the founder of bands such as Machine Gun, Last Exit and Die Like A Dog. He has realeased more than 100 CDs on different labels, most of them at FMP (Free Music Productions).

Wertmueller, a young Swiss Composer and Percussionist, who has lived in Berlin since 1996, is currently composing a piece of chamber music which will be performed at the Donaueschingen Festival for Contemporary Music. He is also a member of Massaker (together with Peter Broetzmann's son Caspar Broetzmann), Werther/Wittwer with Stephan Wittwer, and Alboth!

Broetzmann and Wertmueller have played together for five years, as a duo and in many different combinations.

Their Music is a Clash of Generations, Free Jazz and Death Metal, they are way, way out in a universe, where no one can hear you scream. Just insane. Weird and lovely.

Tickets ($10) are available from the Knitting Factory LA Box-Office in person between the hours of 11 AM and 9 PM or by phone at (323) 463-0204.

LOS ANGELES:

The 31 Birds: Summer Solstice Show

Attention all pagans or the truly religious!

Jonathan Marmor, Erin Barnes, Kraig Grady as the 31 birds (maybe more)

Jarrett Silberman- Solo last i heard

Albert Ortega- Solo last i heard

Please feel free to bring your own republican to sacrifice in lieu of eclipse. no mimes allowed.

6/21/001

The Smell
247 So. Main St.
L.A., CA 90012

(Between 2nd and 3rd St. Downtown L.A. .....enter through alley in back...plenty of free parking.)

All Ages. $5 (unless noted and subject to change) Doors open at 9PM (unless noted). (213)625-4325

North American Embassy of Anaphoria island http://www.anaphoria.com

THURS JUNE 21, 2001 Creative Time's MUSIC IN THE ANCHORAGE presents

LOS ANGELES:

A/V CLUB: multi-media electronic video sound fusion

KURT RALSKE + LUKAS LYSAKOWSKI + UNIT HEXSTATIC (Ninja Tune/Ntone) BATTERY OPERATED

10pm-1am $ 14 adv/$15 door (tix available at Other Music) 18 & over with ID http://www.creativetime.org/anch2001/music.htm

Creative Time's MUSIC IN THE ANCHORAGE presents an evening of electronic audio-video pandemonium inside the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. Performing...

KURT RALSKE (US) and LUKAS LYSAKOWSKI (Poland), video artists who are pioneering the use of the NATO.0+55 software to create real-time video improv. They will collaborate with UNIT, a NY-based electronic musician who creates thick, textural, and often chaotic beats layered with atmospheric chords.

HEXSTATIC (UK) perform and compose their work as an audio-visual experience. Using video samplers to create intricate break-beats and grooves out of stock footage, Hex make an eye-popping and amusing media experience -- electro break beat video that feels like Afrika Bambattaa playing Asteroids on late night TV. (This will be their NYC debut, and only US appearance.)

BATTERY OPERATED (UK/France) are a trio of video and sound artists who create live digital sound and video fusing the visual language of urban architecture with the influences of break-beat culture and musique concrete. Their performances and installations have been featured in Montreal, Sydney, Melbourne, New York, and San Diego.

LOS ANGELES:

Chisel-In Cross-Genre Duo Improvisation series

Body Weather Laboratory presents Chisel-In Cross-Genre Duo Improvisation series

Wadada Leo Smith &Oguri

ELECTRIC LODGE
1416 Electric Ave. Venice CA 90291
information (310) 306 -1854

FOUR DIFFERENT PERFORMANCES
June 22 Fri. 7:30 & 9:00 PM
June 23 Sat. 6:00 & 8:00 PM
General Admission $15, Senior & Student $12, Four performance pass $ 24,
free parking at the Electric Lodge

This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Japan Foundation Los Angeles Offic

Dancer/choreographer/improviser Oguri will work with jazz trumpet, multi - instrumentalist, composer and improviser Wadada Leo Smith in four performances in the Venice community theater, Electric Lodge. Body Weather Laboratory has been presenting Oguri in collaboration with world music and jazz musicians including Adam Rudolph, Nels Cline, James Newton, Wadada Leo Smith, and Joseph Jarman at the Electric Lodge since 1999. "Chisel - In" develops the connection between Oguri a Japanese dancer and internationally recognized leader in the field of contemporary dance and Wadada Leo Smith an active musician in creative contemporary world music for over thirty years.

Improvisation was an important element in the work that originally inspired Oguri to perform and an essential element in the work of Tatsumi Hijikata. It was the trademark of Min Tanaka's expertise. Oguri has always sought collaborations with artists and musicians to broaden his vision and push the limits of his creativity. In Chisel In --Cross Genre Duo Improvisation Oguri will have the opportunity to work with Wadada Leo Smith, an artist whose own sense of structure and composition can be seen as a balance to Oguri's performances and staging. They also share a genuine belief that the power to be gained from the thorough exploration of one's instrument produces the ability to create freely with kinetic memory.

LOS ANGELES:

EARJAM II an all-star two night music and sound performance festival featuring 25 LA solo artists and groups!

eARJAm ll next week - LA Weekly's Pick of the Week!!! Produced by Jacki Apple and Julie Adler in collaboration with American Composers Forum/LA Chapter

Friday June 22, 2001: 8-11 pm Saturday June 23, 2001: 8-12 Midnight

at Side Street LIVE
425 S. Main St. 2nd floor, downtown L.A.
TICKETS: $10/ per night; $18 for both nights, $7/per night students.
Reservations recommended.
Call (213) 620-8895.
Parking ($3) available in the building at 425 S. Main St.

This year EARJAM II will be jumpin and jammin with some of last year's most earbending artists joined by a whole new crop of equally stimulating music and performance innovators. 25 soloists and groups will be featured in two very different evenings.

Be prepared to sample the sounds of LAís leading aural innovators -- from free jazz to experimental funk, from microtonal ambiences to world beat rhythms, from accoustic/ electronic hybrids, to hand-made instruments to computer-driven wireless ones, from classically-based vocals to out-of-this world vocalese. Hear the latest work from some of your favorites, those whose work is well-known, and others you have never encountered before. And most of all -- the surprises that happen when they jam together.

Friday night will focus on bands, performative groups, and vocalists, with Non Credo (Joe Berardi & Kira Vollman), Ulysses Jenkinsí OtherVisions Band, The Emily Hay Collective (Michael Intriere, Emily Hay, BradDutz, and Sara Schoenbeck), Anna Homler and Steuart Liebig, Josie Roth, The Dark Bob & Carey Fosse, Vanessa Paloma, International Metal Supply (Jean Pierre Bedoyan & Paul Cutler), Scot Ray & Michael Vlatkovich, Andrew Bucksbarg, Julie Adler, and Linda Albertano.

Saturday night will emphasize soloists, duets, accoustic instrumentals, improvization, and big group jams with David Ornette Cherry with Stephen 'Breeze' Smith, Vinny Golia, Bruce Fowler, Jim McAuley, Mike Fink, Lynn Johnstonís Double Duo ( Peter Chan, Noah Phillips, Jeremy Drake), Ron George, Ellen Burr, Sara Schoenbeck & Harris Eisenstadt, Fawntice McCain, Susan Rawcliffe, Nina Sun Eidsheim & Ronit Kirchman, Petra Haden and George Sarah.

EARJAM is being produced by sound, performance and visual artist Jacki Apple, the former producer/host of the Soundings radio show and composer/ performer/artist Julie Adler in collaboration with American Composers Forum- L.A. Chapter.

Tune in to KXLU 88.9 June 20th from 9-10 pm with Emily Hay, Jacki Apple & Julie Adler promoting EARJAM!

And we're LA Weekly's Pick of the Week in the June 21st issue!

LOS ANGELES:

TONIGHT June 14th in Los Angeles: John Butcher, saxophone with Vinny Golia, Rich West, Chris Heenan, Jeremy Drake and Tucker Dulin

Thursday, June 14, 9:00 pm, Admission $12
The Knitting Factory
7021 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90028
Tel: 323-463-0204

Informaton: 323-255-5395, cbheenan@hotmail.com

English tenor and soprano saxophonist John Butcher is playing a solo set and a set with wind virtuoso Vinny Golia at the Knitting Factory on Thursday, June 14. He will also be playing a set with a small group of Southern California improvisers: Rich West (percussion), Jeremy Drake (guitar), Chris Heenan (reeds), and from San Diego, Tucker Dulin (trombone).

John Butcher has established an extremely original voice on the saxophone, not only through his use of extended saxophone technigues like multiphonics and flutter tonguing but also through his mastery at improvising in a variety of contexts.

Butcher has played with such free-improvising luminaries as guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist John Stevens and regularly performs with pianist Georg Graewe, vocalist Phil Minton, multi-instrumentalist Steven Beresford, violinist Phil Durrant and guitarist John Russell.

His latest releases includeÝ "Fixations (14)", a new solo saxophone cd on Emanem records; "Points, Snags and Windings", a duo cd with percussionist Dylan van der Schyff on Meniscus records; and "Vortices and Angels", a cd of duos with harpist Rodri Davies and guitarist Derek Bailey on Emanem records.

Tel: 323-255-5395
Fax: 213-628-1213
Email: cbheenan@hotmail.com

LOS ANGELES:

In Between the Heartbeat

Dear Friend,

Old traditions are worth keeping but things that just get old are not intrinsically valuable.
The piece has been developing and still is now.
We don't have many reservation yet.
Please share this event with us.  We need your support and tell friend.

Sincerely yours,

Oguri, Jamie, Boaz and Roxanne.

"Were do we come from? What are we? Were are we going?"
                                                                                            - Paul Gauguin
JAPAN: Traditions and Innovations series
In Between the Heartbeat 2001

"There comes a moment... some incredible transformation that makes you understand...butoh as a laboratory for defining and transcending human limits."
- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times 1998

In Between the Heartbeat is a visual masterpiece every moment has meaning and the accumulation is strangely simple, strangely spiritual"
- Sasha Anawalt/KCRW Talk 1999

You are sure to be amazed and often mesmerized a moving theatrical vision"
- The San Diego Tribune 1999

Oguri (dancer/choreographer) Hirokazu Kosaka (visual & performance artist) Yuval Ron (music)

Friday & Saturday, June 15 & 16, 8 pm
Japan America Theatre  244 South San Pedro Street. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Reserved Seating $20, $17,  JACCC Members $17, $14, Students & Seniors, Groups $15, $12

Box Office (213) 680-3700, 12 - 5 pm

In Between the Heartbeat" was made possible by a grant from the  National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Multi- Arts Production Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation and California Arts Council Rural and Inner City Presenting Pilot Program.

In rememberance of Duane Ebata.

SAN FRANCISCO:

Solo performances by the renowned English improvising saxophonist John Butcher and by Berkeley cello master Hugh Livingston

On Sunday, June 17 at 8:00pm, ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series presents solo performances by the renowned English improvising saxophonist John Butcher and by Berkeley cello master Hugh Livingston, at TUVA Space, 3192 Adeline at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA. Admission is $9.99, suggested.

PROGRAM:

On Sunday, June 17, ACME Observatory presents a concert featuring two solo performers: English saxophone virtuoso John Butcher, and Berkeley/Oakland electronics and cello pioneer Hugh Livingston.

A strong force permeates John Butcher's playing. He began performing on the saxophone while writing his PhD dissertation in theoretical physics, leaving academia in 1982 to persue his music full-time. About his freely improvised playing he says "Some of the best bits come when you're playing near the edge of your control and knowledge. On the saxophone there's quite a thin line, physically, between getting a miserable squeak or a fabulous chord. When the music's working, I think it creates its own connections and shapes that are more interesting than ones you might have tried to consciously impose."

Hugh Livingston is a cellist and electronic musician associated with UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT.) He presents the cello as a new instrument, having devoted years to finding new techniques for the cello, with more than 100 ways to pluck the string plus many aspects of very fine bow control which produce a nearly electronic sound from an acoustic instrument. His performances present improvised and composed music that mixes his virtuoso instrumental performance with digital electronic processes that embrace and extend the acoustic world.

***hot hot hot music for a hot summer night. hugh kicks it up a notch at the acme observatory sunday night june seventeenth at eight pm, sharing the bill with england's john butcher on saxophone; two relatively rare local solo shows. sean griffin's stryx for subterranean cello rears its demonic head from the stygian sonic depths. brought to you by just these intervals: 9:7, 10:7, 13:12 and 35:34. oded ben-tal's karmic moment of lyrical truth explores the gentle side. c matthew burtner puts the cello through some IRCAM granules and a high tremolo quotient. the italo calvino-inspired qwfwq emerges from the primordial depths of creation and sees its shadow layered over five years of performances. this material from the cd stringsandmachines has not been heard in the bay area in about six years. 9.99 admission, no one turned away for smaller donation, show promptly at eight, at the tuva space 3192 adeline AND dr. mlk, jr. just south of ashby bart station on the west side of the street; look for the ANT sign on top of the building and on the corner a convenient store and berkeley's most diverse plein-air pleasure market.***

ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series at Tuva Space, 3192 Adeline Avenue at Martin Luther King Boulevard in Berkeley, CA, one block from the Ashby BART Station -- look for the `ANT' sign (the building used to be an antiques shop.)

All concerts begin at 8:00 PM.

WEB LINKS

ACME Observatory: http://sfSound.org/acme.html

John Butcher: http://www.mindspring.com/~gerryhem/butcher.html

Hugh Livingston: http://www.stringsandmachines.com/

CAPSULE PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES

JOHN BUTCHER lives in London and began playing saxophone professionally in the early 80s. He initially worked mainly in jazz (inc. the 'BBC Big-Band Award' winning Chris Burn Group's "Mingus Tribute"), contemporary dance and music theatre At this time he was completing his studies and research in Physics with a doctorate on the theoretical properties of charmed quarks. Since leaving academia in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively in improvisation and 'new music'. His music ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own group compositions/structurings (such as "Funforall" and "no stops, only commas" for Chris Burn's ENSEMBLE), multitracked pieces, work with tape, and occasional 'classic' 20th Century scores (such as John Cage and Charles Ives).

His first LP was "Fonetiks" (1985) - a duo with pianist Chris Burn, whom he continues to work with in many contexts. In 1984 he began another long term commitment - a trio with Phil Durrant and John Russell - later adding Radu Malfatti and Paul Lovens to form "News from the Shed". In 1987 he began running the record label ACTA, which now has 12 releases.

Solo concerts have long been a particular challenge, and, as well as 'free' improvisations, these sometimes include pieces for improvisation plus multitracked saxophone on tape. One such piece, "Shrinkdown", is on the 1996 release "London and Cologne". Multitracked saxophones are a long-time enthusiasm (Butcher has received various Arts Council Bursaries to research this and multiphonic possibilities) and 4 such pieces are on "Thirteen Friendly Numbers" (CD '92). Another tape piece Butcher works with in performance is "Sowari" - an Arts Council commission composed by Phil Durrant from transformed saxophone samples. His interest in electronc music has led recently to a live electro-manipulations duo with Phil Durrant which has recently released the CD "Secret Measures".

Butcher has toured and broadcast throughout Europe and North America - releasing over 20 recordings - and was recently featured, performing solo, in the BBC "Date with an Artist" TV series. A selection of groups he has played with include

- various of Derek Bailey's "Company Weeks"
- the final version of John Stevens' "Spontaneous Music Ensemble"
- "Frisque Concordance" with Georg Graewe
- The Phil Minton Quartet's "mouthfull of ecstasy project"
- a trio with Derek Bailey and tuba player Oren Marshall
- a trio with Erhard Hirt and Phil Minton
- the Austrian new-music group "Polwecshel"
- Fred van Hove's "t'nonet"
- Butch Morris' "London Skyscraper".

Butcher has a new quartet with bassist John Edwards, harpist Rhodri Davies and percussionist Martin Blume, and a trio with American percussionist Gino Robair and bassist Matthew Sperry and continues to play in many occasional, often once-only settings. These have included, for instance, concerts with Alexander Balanescu, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford, Elton Dean and Barry Guy.

He is co-director of SoundArt (London) - an organisation presenting mixed programmes of composition and improvisation ('96 and '98 Festivals). He was a director of the London Musicians' Collective ('93 - '97) - co-programming two of their festivals. Workshops and lecture/demonstrations given by Butcher include events at the Third Internationale Tagung fr Improvisation (Luzern Conservatoire, Switzerland), Hurta Cordel (Madrid, Spain), Other Sounds (Seattle, USA), Sound Symposium (St. John's, Newfoundland), Vancouver Jazz Festival (Canada) and the Royal Academy of Music (London, England). He recently spoke at the 1st Symposium for Contemporary Music in Copenhagen, Denmark.

HUGH LIVINGSTON: cellist with degrees from Yale, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California San Diego, all in twentieth-century music, analysis and performance. Noted interpreter of Asian music and electronic music, with international performing and lecturing career.

Livingston is director of the Strings and Machines project, which began over ten years ago at Yale University's electronic music studio, and has since been affiliated with numerous other important studios, including Columbia, Peabody, Stanford, NYU, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, and University of Washington. The title was used for Hugh Livingston's solo CD, released by the Electronic Music Foundation in October 1999. The project has involved the creation of new music for cello with electronic processing, employing elements as diverse as video projection, multiple realtime hardware and software processing and recognition systems, control sensors measuring pressure, acceleration and velocity in performance, and theatrical components. The project has now expanded to work in the areas of concert production and promotion, as well as educational and collaborative events that engage targeted audiences in the creative process for the long term.

NEW YORK CITY:

TONIC - various performances!

For more details, ticket info and updates please go to http://www.tonicnyc.com.

TONIC EVENTS this June!

June New Music Festival curated by John Zorn

--Fri, Jun 01-- *Arto Lindsay Band at 8 & 10:00pm *Xtatika Record Release Party at Midnight *The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sat, Jun 02-- *Arto Lindsay & Special Guests at 8 & 10pm *Yerba Buena at Midnight *subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sun, Jun 03-- *Yiddish Song curated by Itsik Gotesman Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm *The Stop and Listen Boys / Michael Hurley Double Bill -at 8:00pm

--Wed, Jun 06-- *Ernst Rejiseger / Ernst Rejiseger & Jim Black at 8 & 10:00pm

--Thu, Jun 07-- *Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos at 8 & 10:00pm *Ted Reichman at Midnight *phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Fri, Jun 08-- *The Crackers: Marc Ribot, Mark Anthony Thompson, Dougie Bowne, Jamaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston at 8 & 10:00pm *Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at Midnight *The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sat, Jun 09-- *The Crackers: Marc Ribot, Mark Anthony Thompson, Dougie Bowne, Jamaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston at 8 & 10:00pm *Sex Mob at Midnight *subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sun, Jun 10-- *David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! Klezmer Brunchat 1:30 & 3:00pm *Trio 3: Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake & Reggie Workman at 8 & 10:00pm

--Mon, Jun 11-- *Tripleplay with Ken Vandermark at 8 & 10:00pm

--Wed, Jun 13-- *Marilyn Crispell & Gary Peacock at 8:00 & 9:30pm

--Thu, Jun 14-- *John Zorn's Masada at 8 & 10:00pm *phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Fri, Jun 15-- *John Zorn's The Gift at 8 & 10:00pm *Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra at Midnight *The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sat, Jun 16-- *John Zorn's Masada at 8 & 10:00pm *subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sun, Jun 17-- *Golem Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm *Ion Sports / Nina Nastasia at 8:00pm

--Mon, Jun 18-- *The Clogs / Freight Elevator Quartet Double Bill at 9:00pm

--Tue, Jun 19-- *Trio Tragico / Drew Gress' Spin & Drift at 8:00 & 10pm

--Wed, Jun 20-- *Ned Rothenberg/Susie Ibarra/Mark Dresser at 8:00pm & 10pm

--Thu, Jun 21-- *Steven Bernstein Presents Diaspora Soul at 8 & 10:00pm *TBA at Midnight *phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Fri, Jun 22-- *Ravi Coltrane at 8 & 10:00pm *Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra at Midnight *The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sat, Jun 23-- *Ravi Coltrane at 8 & 10:00pm *subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sun, Jun 24-- *Steven Greenman & Lori Simon Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm *Dump / The Scene Is Now Double Billat 8:00pm

--Mon, Jun 25-- *Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm

--Tue, Jun 26-- *Dave Douglas at 8 & 10:00pm With Baikida Carroll, Roy Campbell, Craig Taborn, Mark Dresser, & Susie Ibarra.

--Wed, Jun 27-- *Dave Douglas at 8 & 10:00pm With Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Timo Ellis, Yuka Honda & Ikue Mori.

--Thu, Jun 28-- *Quakebasket Night: Oren Ambarchi / Minamo / Tim Barnes & Ikue Mori Triple Bill at 8:00pm *phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Fri, Jun 29-- *Chasing Paint: The Jane Ira Bloom Quartet plays Pollock at 8:00pm *Black Beetle at Midnight *The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

--Sat, Jun 30-- *John Zorn Improv at 8:00pm & 10:00pm *subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge

Please visit http://www.tonicnyc.com for more information & updates.

107 Norfolk Street (Between Delancey & Rivington) 212-358-7501 / http://www.tonicnyc.com.

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